Re: Did Claris buy TimeOut QuickSpell from Beagle Bros?

["bill.martens@gmail.com" <bill.martens@gmail.com>]

On Dec 31 2008, 6:58 am, Warren Ernst <wer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 8:25 pm, applework...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > My understanding was that when Quality Computers was sold, they gave
> > the rights to all of the TimeOut programs back to the Beagle Bros
> > programmers.  Many of them were eventually released to the public, but
> > QuickSpell and Thesaurus (by Alan Bird) were not. Word was that the
> > licensing of the Random House dictionaries prevented this.  Of course,
> > if you own QuickSpell, the AppleWorks dictionaries work just fine with
> > it.
>
> Alan Bird, and indeed all the TimeOut authors, have graciously given
> the Beagle Bros Software Repository (http://beagle.applearchives.com/
> the_software/) permission to distribute all of the TimeOut titles,
> this year. I know this because I was the fellow who contacted everyone
> and got the permission.
>
> Why the site hasn't been updated to reflect this is unknown to me, but
> I'm sure it will be soon.
>
> -Warr

At this point it has been a time factor thing.  Eight of the manuals
are scanned.  I was hoping to get it out by year end but did not.
There will be an update to the site this week and an additional one
within the month.  I currently have 16 of the manuals and will post
the list of what I have and dont have.  Anyone with Beagle manuals is
welcome to submit PDF's of them in 300dpi Plus scans to the site.

cheers

--billm--